One sure thing I know about binge eating is you can't use will power to stop binge eating. I think you know that, too. The reason you don't know how to stop binge eating is that its part of a larger problem I call Emotional Eating.
Whenever you binge after a fight, or double up on portions because your day turned sour, that's Emotional Eating.
When it comes to Emotional Eating, people aren't eating to feed their body. No one needs a candy bar after a fight to make it through the night. When people eat at times like these, they are eating to satisfy, numb, or avoid their emotions.
Understanding How to Stop Binging
People who don't know how to stop binging are suffering from Emotional Eating and are driven to eat so they won't have to face what's bothering them internally. And in many ways, they become addicted to this way of handling life. They feel compelled to binge in this way and can't control what they eat. That's why diets almost never work. Unless you can learn to stop Emotional Eating, you will never be able to stop binge eating, lose weight and keep it off. Period.
People often look to diets for binge eating support but diet and exercise programs can actually encourage binging. Almost every single diet book and diet plan leads to the deprive-and-binge approach. It begins with deprivation. As you know, when you diet, you deprive yourself of what you really want, applying willpower and discipline to keep yourself away from the fridge. It's a painful and difficult thing to do, and unfortunately, the method doesn't work for long because you really don't want to deprive yourself. Eventually, your Emotional Eating patterns kick in, you can't stop binge eating and then the diet ends.
Binging and Purging By Binging and Running
Another approach people use to lose weight is what I call binging and running. This is the approach where you allow yourself to overeat, but instead of purging they try to compensate for it with exercise. Exercise is essential, but it only works if you also limit your diet and try to break your food addiction. This strategy doesn't work primarily because in order to compensate for eating to excess, you have to exercise so much that you increase the risk of injury, which poses special problems if exercise is your chief weight loss method. Any time you need to stop exercising in order to heal, your weight balloons up quickly.
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The title of this article is "Why it's so hard to stop binge eating."
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